Hi, I don't know why, but I'm getting bad performance on every game I tried to play.

Super Mario Galaxy: Stays between 40 and 50 fps (it should run at 60).
Xenoblade: 17-25 fps (I have the path to run the game at 30 fps).
Dragon Quest Monsters Battle Road of Victory: 22-26 fps (it should run at 30).
Zelda Twilight Princess: 20-27 (it should run at 30).

The odd thing is that those games stays at the same framerate regardless of the settings. It doesn't go up nor down.

It doesn't matter if I put Native resolution and all settings for "best performance" or X4 resolution, EFB copies to RAM, DSP LLE audio, 8x anisotropic filtering, 4x AA. THE FPS STAYS THE SAME. It's like they are limited by some magic force.

(09-22-2013, 11:04 PM)omega_rugal Wrote: That phenom is not the best CPU to run demanding games like SMG or Xenoblade

that is the magic force behind all this.

Ok, but why it runs much better on my friend's laptop?

My specs are way better than his.

His laptop runs the games better because his cpu is better than yours. As Venomx1 said above. Dolphin relies on single threaded performance and the phenom ii is pretty low on single threaded performance.